DVDs

Something that’s been occupying my time lately is an amazing Swedish film called “Let the Right One In”. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it check out the trailer at the end of this post. It’s a film about a 12 year old boy who is picked on at school and has no [...]

It was a big DVD weekend for me. I wanted to take a breather from last week’s shoot and create some distance from my memory of the footage. This allows me to re-attack the footage with a fresh mind. First up was Stardust, a story based on a novel by Neil Gaiman of most recent [...]

Rented “The Machine Girl” a release from Tokyo Shock that I’ve been wanting to see for some time now. It’s not often that you see a lot of press for a Japanese film unless it has done well at festivals. This is not a festival style film unless you think chain saw arms, drill bras [...]

Friday, I had my weekly meeting with Richard, but we decided to forgo the usual mystery project meeting for a ScorpFrog meeting. Things are looking really good for ScorpFrog. Richard is wrapping up the last few stray ends including food and crew. He brought over a sample of the lunch we’ll be eating and it’s [...]

On Thursday I purchased ‘Hearts of Darkness’, the documentary on Francis Ford Coppola’s movie ‘Apocalypse Now’. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s a look at filmmaking you don’t normally see. Instead of showing directors sitting in a chair and talking about their style in a state of calm, this movie show the stress and [...]